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MATASSA v. BEL

Nos. 1143, 1144.

156 So.2d 250 (1963)

John J. MATASSA v. Clyde F. BEL, Sr., George Credo and the Times-Picayune Publishing Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 2, 1963.

Certiorari Granted November 12, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice R. Woulfe and Richard A. Dowling, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

G. Wray Gill, Joseph W. Joachim, Jr., George W. Gill, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, Ashton Phelps and Peter G. Burke, New Orleans, for Times-Picayune Publishing Corp., defendant-appellee.

Before REGAN, YARRUT and SAMUEL, JJ.

SAMUEL, Judge.

These two suits, consolidated for trial and to be decided by one judgment in the district court and consolidated for argument here, are for an alleged libel arising out of an advertisement which appeared in The Times-Picayune, a morning newspaper, and the New Orleans States-Item, an afternoon newspaper, on March 2, 1962. With the exception of the fact that one of the suits is based on the advertisement in The Times-Picayune and the other is based on...

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